🇯🇵 Index List of Book Clubs

This thread is intended for easy of access for the :jp: learnnatively Book Clubs.

Maybe in the future, it will have some integration straight into the main site and this won’t be needed to be updated any more.

For other languages, please refer to the Master Index list of Book Clubs

Please note that even if a past club book isn’t designated as being actively read, you can still go back to those threads and post thoughts/comments/questions in them!

For the official Book Club suggestion thread, where you can poll potential readers on their interest in a brand-new club (or see if the idea’s been tossed around before), please visit this thread: Book Club Suggestions.


Frequently Asked Questions

What is a book club?

Book clubs are where people read books together! Typically, the process goes like this:

  1. People nominate books to read (nomination rules will differ depending on the club)
  2. After a certain number of nominations are collected, or the current book club read is nearing completion, or some other club-determined factor, voting is opened for interested participants to choose which book the club should read next. Voters are typically given multiple votes to use on their favorites among the nominations.
  3. After a pre-determined amount of time, the poll closes, and the next book is picked!
  4. A home thread is created, which will serve as the hub of discussion for that particular pick and how the club will be run around that particular book. A schedule for reading the book is decided on, and updates on the club’s progress or other questions and answers are also hosted here.
  5. Depending on how long the book is, how long the club for that book will run, and how many anticipated participants there are, the person running the club can choose to have each week’s reading split off into it’s own thread (all of which are then catalogued in the home thread) or keep all discussion for all weeks in the home thread itself.
  6. Once the current read finishes, the process starts again!
What's the difference between a formal and informal club?

The line between these two can be rather fuzzy! Here are some general guidelines you can use to distinguish the two, but keep in mind it can depend on what the club considers itself, how the club activities change, evolving community standards for classification, etc.

I wouldn’t worry about it too much, to be honest; declaring your club is one or the other is not essential or needed at all to start your own club. The terms are used here as a general way for those keeping track of clubs to have some sort of internal system of organization, but the book club police will not be called on anyone if you say one thing and it’s marked as something different here!

  • Is the club organized around one specific theme, genre, author, series, etc.? → Probably a formal club.
  • Does the club stick to a rigid and formally-voted on reading schedule? → Probably a formal club.
  • Is the club a one-off group of people interested in reading one specific book with no plans to formally vote on another one after? → Probably an informal club.
  • Is all of the book reading discussion hosted in one home thread? → Used to be this was more of an indicator of an informal club, but recent book club threads organized in a more “formal” fashion have started to host discussion in one thread, so now it depends.

Natively Book Clubs

Table of Contents:

TOC Legend:
:green_circle: : currently reading/planning to read a book
:pause_button: : not currently reading/planning to read a book
:heavy_check_mark: : this section is “full”. Please add future books to the next relevant section.

Book Club Lists Legend:
:seedling: - An offshoot club for a particular book (usually to continue reading the series past the initially-voted # of volumes) has been created. If no link on the seedling icon, see the book’s home thread.

Advent Calendar Inspired Clubs

Book List
Cover Title Level Status Year Links
By Pixels 叙述トリック短編集 34 Finished 2022 :house: :label:
By Pixels 2023 Aozora Short Story and Essay Advent Finished 2023 :house:
By Pixels 怪しくゆかいな妖怪穴 30 Finished 2023 :house:
By Pixels ちょっと探偵してみませんか 32 Finished 2023 :house:
By Pixels 2024 Aozora Short Story and Essay Advent Upcoming 2024 :house:

Beginner’s Light Novel Club

Book List
Cover Title Level Status Links
By Pixels また、同じ夢を見ていた 25 Finished :house:
By Pixels サマーウォーズ 26 Finished :house:

BL Club

Book List

Children’s Club

Book List

CLAMP Club

Book List

Horror Club

Book List
Cover Title Level Status Links
By Pixels リング 35 Finished :house: :label: :chains:
By Pixels ぼぎわんが、来る 36 Finished :house: :label:
By Pixels 六番目の小夜子 30 Finished :house: :label: :chains:

Informal Clubs, Pt. 1 :heavy_check_mark:

Book List

Informal Clubs, Pt. 2

Book List
Cover Title Level Status Links
By Pixels ハンチバック 33 Finished :house:
薬屋のひとりごと 2 38 Finished :house: :label:
By Pixels 木になった亜紗 27 Finished :house:
By Pixels 不機嫌な果実 34 Finished :house: :label:
By Pixels 私が失敗した理由は 33 Finished :house:
By Pixels 理由 34 In Progress :house:
By Pixels 秋の牢獄 31 In Progress :house:
君と綴るうたかた 22 In Progress :house:

癒し系 Book Club

Book List
Cover Title Level Status Links
By Pixels 泣きたい夜の甘味処 17 Finished :house: :label:
By Pixels マグメル深海水族館 25 Finished :house: :label:
By Pixels 新しい上司はど天然 23 Finished :house: :label:

Light Novel Club

Book List
Cover Title Level Status Links
By Pixels コップクラフト 35 Finished :house: :label:
By Pixels 本好きの下剋上 30 Finished :house: :label:
By Pixels 後宮の烏 35 Finished :house: :label:
By Pixels NHKにようこそ! 32 Finished :house: :label:
By Pixels 京都寺町三条のホームズ 32 Finished :house: :label:
By Pixels 神様たちのお伊勢参り 30?? In Progress :house: :label:

Mystery Club, Pt. 1 :heavy_check_mark:

Book List
Cover Title Level Status Links
By Pixels 十角館の殺人 34 Finished :house: :label:
By Pixels 体育館の殺人 32 Finished :house: :label:
By Pixels 七回死んだ男 34 Finished :house: :label:
By Pixels 告白 33 Finished :house: :label:
By Pixels 木洩れ日に泳ぐ魚 32 Finished :house: :label:
By Pixels medium 霊媒探偵城塚翡翠 32 Finished :house: :label:
By Pixels 黒い森の記憶 30 Finished :house: :label:
By Pixels 赤ずきん、旅の途中で死体と出会う。 30 Finished :house: :label:
By Pixels シャドウ 30 Finished :house: :label:
By Pixels 点と線 34 Finished :house:

Mystery Club, Pt. 2

Book List
Cover Title Level Status Links
By Pixels 水車館の殺人 35 In Progress :house: :label:

Non-Fiction Club

Book List
Cover Title Level Status Links
image 日本人の心がわかる日本語 25 Upcoming :house:

恩田陸 Club

Book List
Cover Title Level Status Links
By Pixels 月の裏側 34 Finished :house: :label:
By Pixels 六番目の小夜子 30 Finished :house: :label: :chains:

Visual Novel Reading Club

Game List

Webnovels Informal Club

Book List
Title Status Links
私の夫は冷凍庫に眠っている Finished :house:
レモン味のラムネ In Progress :house:

Yuri/GL/WLW Club

Book List
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Suggestions for formatting, categorizing and other feedback welcome. As stated in title is a Work in progress.

It could probably resemble more to what @seanblue did over at WaniKani, but the idea in including the natively cards is that (it should?) update the level automatically.

The thread itself is a Wiki, so it should allow for editions.

Maybe also a pin along the category introduction would be useful @brandon ?

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Thanks for doing this!

Unfortunately, Discourse caches that information which it gets from the meta tags… so it won’t update very frequently. I think the cache is pretty long but still the best we can do :confused:

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Maybe then I’ll do a fancy table, and let people update it as it’s a wiki if it changes.

The current format is going to be painful if the list grows too much.
Also I don’t think the Levels will change that drastically over time.

If it helps at all, the mystery club has a list of past clubs linked in the home thread here. Since it’s a paragraph header it can be linked to directly.

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I ended up doing a fancy table, as it looks a bit cleaner than how it was presented previously.

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The book covers are :ok_hand:

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I copied someone :rofl:

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I added the レベル7 informal club; it needs to go in it’s own table, but I abstained for the moment since I’m on mobile and it’d end up being a mess. Same for last December’s advent club.

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Went ahead and did it since I was on desktop, and I’m still jetlagged and I don’t think I have much else to do at 4AM :sweat_smile:

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caught a few duplicated links in the table and fixed them

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@Megumin @eefara I updated the Light Novel Club (or at least I tried to :sweat_smile:).

Also we may want to change the title for the light novel club… it’s now in progress! :slight_smile:

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Thanks brandon! I completely forgot about this thread. :sweat_smile: I moved 告白 down so the mystery club picks would be in order. :see_no_evil:

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Went ahead and updated gradings.

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Updated Light Novel Club, pending the tag link once the permission issue is resolved.

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@eefara I’d avoid putting Korean here, and keep it JP only, is my opinion.

Is already quite messy. Another separate thread in the Reading would be best handling that.

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No problem! I can remove it. I dunno if we need a separate thread at this point for non-JP bookclubs; they’re not going to happen too regularly atm I would think.

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Then, moving it out of the Japanese subforum to All Languages would make most sense.

In any case, I don’t think the format should be like that.

Maybe split the Japanese and Other langauge tables?

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Hmm. Agreed, I think.

That makes sense to me when it’s a definite “our participants are only reading in this one language”, but like with 本好き for example, it’s a dual-language club. Maybe three separate sections? JP, KR (whenever those pop up) and Multilanguage?

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